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Günter Zöller (b. 1954) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Munich (Germany). He studied at the University of Bonn (Germany), the École normale supérieure (Paris, France), and Brown University (United States) and has held visiting professorships at Princeton University, Emory University, Seoul National University, McGill University, the University of Bologna, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Huazhong University of Science and Technology. He is the author, editor, and coeditor of thirty-five books and the author of three hundred articles in classical German philosophy.

• PrefaceNote on Citations1. The Polity: Plato and the Republican Legacy2. The Ideal Republic: Kant and PlatoAncients and ModernsThe Prehistory of the History of PhilosophyFrom Categories to IdeasFrom Plato’s Ideas to Kant’s IdeasFrom Plato’s Republic to Kant’s RepublicKant’s Republicanism3. The Real Republic: Hegel and PlatoPhilosophy and Its HistoryThe Real and the IdealReason and RealityPlato’s RepublicHegel4. The People’s Republic: Fichte and PlatoAn Inner PlatonismCitizens and Human BeingsThe State and the NationState and RealmAppendix: "Plato's Republic" (ca. 1807) by FichteNotesBibliography

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